Printer friendly ]Freelance Director & Head of Financial Services Division Surrey, UK
Senior/Director level management consulting skills and business development experience including board level sales & marketing, systems implementation and large scale programme implementation.
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| Hourly Rate / Cost: | £111.11 per hour |
| Daily Rate / Cost: | £888.89 per day |
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| Seller ID: | 240581 |
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The candidate offers a range of executive level management and programme director skills covering senior management and board level consulting, CxO sales & marketing, General Management, SLA design and high value commercial; contractual and programme implementation experience. Having worked in the Financial Services sector for over 15 years he has a good bank of established contacts and an in-depth understanding of the industry.
Current focus on European Directives – Including MiFID and FSA legislation around Treating Customers Fairly (TCF). Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) solutions focused on protecting and keeping the CEO out of prison, through the implementation of best practice.
A seasoned director level leader in Financial Services with 20 years successful experience in IT, software, business development, management consulting, project and programme management and leading business change.
Experience includes setting up and running a successful FS consulting and software sales group from scratch to a team of 70 project managers, consultants and staff recruited from the ‘Big 4’ in the UK. Selling, implementing and managing projects ranging in value from £5 Million to over £25 million in the FS corporate market place.
International experience includes delivery of a very successful business turnaround programme in SE Asia/Europe which involved managing a team of 1500 local staff spread across Hong Kong, Vietnam and Thailand resulting in a 300% increase in sale and productivity. References and documented results available. This role was for a Manufacturing company with a strong focus on implementing new processes, systems & controls.
Over the past 10 years has personally implemented software, consulting and solutions into the financial & telco sector estimated at a value well in excess of £100 Million.
Employment History
(May 2005 & ongoing)
Director & Head of Financial Services Division
LondonSCL Ltd is a 10 year old mid sized firm of consultants based near London.
Member of the company’s main operational and strategic board with responsibility for FS sector strategy, developing the customer value proposition, recruitment, building and running a team of compliance and risk management officers/consultants and project managers focused on Governance, Risk and Compliance solutions (GRC) in the Financial Services Sector.
(Jan 1997 to Feb 2002)
Founder & Group CEO
LondonCCG offers business consulting, Project Management, compliance & risk solutions to the FS corporate community. Clients include Prudential, Britannia B.Soc, Barclays Bank, CGU, Sun Life, Allied Dunbar. As CEO and Founder of the company candidate had full P&L responsibility and day to day management responsibility for over 70 full time staff as well as managing major accounts and projects. Turn over of business in first year was in excess of US $3 Million with 40% net margin - business sold to MBI in 2002. (Candidate took a 6 month break to build villa in Thailand).
(Sep 1994 to Jan 1997)
European Business Development Director Financial Services
Global Solutions Provider , LondonCandidate was responsible for major account development and sales strategy on key FS accounts in Northern Europe. Managing and developing VAR’s/3rd party suppliers and forming business partnerships with other leading consultancies and vendor’s in the region. Contract negotiation and bid management on large IT & service related deals in excess of £30 Million. Candidate consistently achieved over 136% of set revenue targets.
(Jun 1991 to Sep 1994)
Financial Services Director
Leading FS Software House , LondonCandidate ran a subsidiary company in the group responsible for R&D of new and innovative business and compliance based software applications. Managing a team of software programmers (C++, VB) building bespoke software solutions for Financial Advisers.
Professional Qualifications
HND Communications, Avionics and Computing Royal Air Force
Top 1% Member of UK MENSA.
Prince 2 Accredited - Project & Programme Management.
Education
(Jun 1984 to Jul 1987)
RAF
Computing, Communications & Electronics degree
Categories & Freelance Skills
Management Consultancy
Categories
Skills
- Business Impact Analysis (Project Consultancy)
- Change Management (Project Consultancy)
- Financial Services (Project Consultancy)
- Insurance (Project Consultancy)
- Large Company - UK
- Leadership (Project Consultancy)
- Man Management (Project Consultancy)
- Multiple Projects (Project Consultancy)
- Negotiation
- Pensions (Project Consultancy)
- PRINCE2 (Project Consultancy)
- Process Change (Project Consultancy)
- Programme Management (Project Consultancy)
- Project Management (Project Consultancy)
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